Gun.



S. H. LOVE.

GUN,

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S. H. LOVE.

GUN.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 6. 19,18.

1,301, 143, Patented Apr. 22,1919.

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GUN. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 6. I9I8 Patented Apr. 22, 1919.

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, throughy one SANDY H. LOVE, 0F COLT, ARKANSAS, ANI) ON E-FOURTH TO ARMSTU ASSIGNOR 0F ON E-FOURTH TO ARCHIE L. NUNN P. HAMPTON, BOTH 0F COLT, ARKANSAS.

GUN.

To all whom t may concern-f Be it known that I, SANDY H. Lovn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Colt, in the county of St. Francis and State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Guns; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. i

This invention relates to guns, and more particularly to a revolver structure which is positioned underground and is operated by the depression of a tread structure to automatically discharge the gun or revolver for killing the person who treads upon the tread or bridge structure.

The invention is particularly designed for use in guarding camps, warehouses, supply stations, or other similar places or buildings, so as to eliminate the necessity of the employment of night watchmen to protect the building, and it comprises, generally, a pair of gun structures including barrels which have revolving magazines or cylinders assooiated therewith 'together with means for automatically revolving the magazines or cylinders in the gun to position the cartridges in alinementv with the bore of the barrels, and also means for automatically operating the hammer structure to discharge cartridges when a person stands upon the tread member which is positioned at a distance from the. gun structure, and in front ofthe barrels of the gun, so that the projectile discharged from the gun will strike t ie person standing upon the tread member. With the foregoing and other objects in view this invention consists in such'novel features of construction, combination and arrangementof parts as will be hereinafter more fullyrdescribed, illustrated in the acconpanying drawings, and claimed.

In describing the invention in detall, refe'renceVY will be had to the accompanying drawings Awherein like, charactersV designate' like a'nd corresponding parts throughout theseveral views'and in which:

Figure 1 is a side view of the gun' showit in position.

ig. 2 is a top plan view. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section of the gun structureel' Specification of Letters Patent.

the housing for Patented Apr. 22, 1919.

Application mea March e, 191s. seria1N0.22o,7e5.

Fig. et is a horizontal section through a part of the gun structure.

Y Fig. 5 is a section through the tread structure.

Fig. 6 is a detail cross section through the bridge end of one of the gun structures.

Fig. 7 is a detail perspective view of inclosing the gun, and

Fig. 8 is a side elevation of a modified form of the gun structure.

eferring more particularly to the drawings, 1 designates a housing or casing for the gun structure, which is constructed of any suitable material and has doors 2 formed in the sides of the same to permit access to the interior of the casing for inspection and rel tures. u

The gun structure proper includes a base 3 which has bars 4 extending longitudinally along the edges of the same, and a rearwardly extending' inclined bar 5, which is braced by a suitable angularly disposed bracing bar 6. Suitable braces 7 and 8 are attached to the brace bars 5 and 6 and extend upwardly therefrom, as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing. The brace bar 7 is attached to a member 9 formed on the under surface of the gun barrels 10 while the brace bar 8 extends upwardly behind the rear ends of the revolving magazines ll of the gun structure. The brace 7 is braced by a suitable brace 12 which is attached to the plate bar t. The magazine l1 is rotatably supported, upon trunnions 14, as is ordinary in revolvers or side arms including a revoluble magazine and it is provided with a plurality of chambers l5, preferably ten or more in number, which receive the cartridges, the projectiles of which are forced outwardly through the bore 16 of the barrel 10, by the explosion of the cartridge.

he outer surface of the chambers or magazines 11 are provided with a plurality of notches extendinocircumferentially about the magazines whlch notches provide shoulders 17 that are engaged by the upper end of a pawl 18. The pawl 18 is slidably supported by suitable guides 19, and it has a fiat spring 20 positioned within the guides which holds the upper end of the pawl in' engagement with one of the shoulders 17 of the cylinder. The lower end of the pawl 18 is connected` to a rod. 2'1, which rod is ading of the gun struc-f rockably supported by suitable supporting arms 22. The rod 21 extends through one end of a bar 23 which is pivotally supported by suitable standards 24, intermediate of its ends, so that upon the rocking of the lever 23, the rod 21 will be rocked for moving the pawl or trigger 18 vertically, to rota-te the magazine 11 one step, to move one of the chambers thereof into alinement with the bore 16 of the gun barrel 10. A suitable resilient catch structure 25 is provided for preventing reverse rotation of the cylinder or magazine 11.

The upper end of the brace or support 8 is provided with an openin- 26, in -which is mounted the firing pin 27. This tiring pin, may be of the ordinary construction used in exploding the cartridges used in guns of this nature and it is operated by the operation of a hammer 28. The hammer 28 is pivotally supported as shown at 29, and the head 30 thereof is positioned for striking the firing pin 27 when the hammer is operated, through the rocking of the trigger lever 23. The hammer 29 is forced into a firing position by a flat spring 31, which is attached to the support 8 and has its upper end seated in a recess 32 formed in the hammer 30.

The hammer structure 28 is-cocked by they rocking of the rod 3-3, which rod is bent intermediate its .end to form a substantially U-shaped portion 34, the bight portion of which lis connected to the trigger lever 23. The ends of the rod 33 are bent at right angles to the main portion of the rod as v shown at 35, and since there are two guns employed in the construction of the improved gun structure, both ends of the rod 33 are bent to formihammer operating menr bers 35 as clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 4f of the drawings.

The angled end 35 of the rod 33 engages a pivoted wear member' 36 which is pivotally connected to thehammer structure 28 and is held in Aits normal posi-tion by a flat spring 37. Thepivoted wear member 3G is provided and heldin an outward extended position by the spring 37 so as to permit of pivotal movementvof this wear member under the rocking movement of lthe end 35 of the rod 33, so as to allow a yieldable connection between the end 35 and the hammer 28 to perm-it the hammer tovbe forced into a firing position by the action of the spring 31 without being impeded in its movements bythe angled end 35 of the rod Coil springs 38 :are connected to the bight portion of the lU-shaped xportion 3l of the rod 33 andto thebar v6, for returning the rod 35 and the-trigger lever'.23 Ito their normalpositions after they fhave been operated bythe rocking of-the operating lever 10. The `operating lever 40 isp'ivotally -su.p ported by .la suitable supportinggstmeture 411, carried .by the supporting structure of the gun, and the rear end of the operating lever 10 is connected to the trigger lever 23, by bars 4:2, rearwardly of the pivot ofthe operating lever 40. The operating lever 40 extends forwardly from the muzzles of the guns, beneath the ground, as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, and it has its forward end connected to the forkedends 113 of a vertically `movable rod 44. The rod 44e has its upper end attached to the under surface of a tread or bridge 45 which is positioned at any desired distance from the'v gun structure andprojects only a very short distance above the surface of lthe ground, as clearly shown in F ig. 1 of the drawings. The bridge'or tread 45 has a 1pair of fguide bars 46 connected to theends of the same, and the lower ends of these guide bars extend through `suitable openings 4:7 formed in the top of a casing 458 for the tripping mechanism of the guns. The rod has a head 49 formed u )on 'the lower endof the same, which is slida le in a vertical Vcylinder 50 positioned within the casing d8. A helical spring 51 is mounted in ythe Icylinder `50 and engages athe head 19., for holding the tread l5 :in its upward iposition, .untilthe tread is depressed by theweight-of a aperson walking or stepping upon thesame. Y

In the operation ofthe improved structure, the gun mechanism lor `structure is placed in a suitable pit as clearly fshown in Fig. 1 ofthe drawings,and it is inclosed by the casing -1 vso as to prevent dirt orother foreign 'matter vfrom interfering with the operativeness of the `gun fstructureandfthe chambers of Ythe magazine or' cylinder 1111 are filled with cartridges. Thegun is then ready yfor operation. Itv will be noticediinfthe drawings `thata pair of the gun structures are employed, and they areaconnectedito operate simultaneously. The `two gun structures are identicahand nfthe Vforegoingzdescri-ption, only one of them has been described .but it isto loe understood "thatthe otliergun structure is identicalan construe tion with the'one described 4withthe exception ofthe factsthat'the barrel 10fthereo-f is elevatedfmore thanlthe barrel 10 of the yfirst described gun, so that it will shoot higher than the first V.gun will shoot, as clearly shown in Fig. 1.of the drawings.

Afte1 the-gun has been properly -set,any person treading -upon the tread or l.bridge l5 will movethismember downwardly and consequently move the rods la downwardly which `will rockvtheoperating lever '40 i upon its pivot. Therocking of thelever `40=upon its pivot, will in turn rockithe triggerlever 23, and roclvthe rod 33, `to move thefends 35 of this rod into engagementwithmembers 36 and force the hammers28 rearwardly againstfthetension: of the sprinvs31. When 'thefends-B of thelrotl 33 ref e'the is pivotally of the springs 31 which will cause limit of their upward movement, they will pass off of the lower ends of members 36, allowing the -hammers to be forced forwardly into its normal position by the action the hammers tot Strike` the firing -pin 27, and fire the cartridges with which the firing pins aline.

uring the operation of the cartridge, Vthe rod 2l will be rocked to move the pawl 18 downwardly so that it will engage inone of the ratchets 17 of the cylinder below the one in which it was previously engaged. Then when the springs 38 return the rod33 and the trigger lever 23 to their normal position, the magazines or cylinders of the gun structures will be rotated one step, Amoving the cartridge next to the one which was just fired into alinement with the pin, and resetting the gun for operation upon the depression of the tread 45. The barrels 10 of the guns are arranged so that the bullets projecting from the muzzles thereof will strike the person who depresses the tread 45 and kill him.

vIn Fig. 8 of the drawings, a modified form of the invention is shown, which modied form is identical in construction with the preferred form heretofore described, in all respects with the exception of the fact that the gun structure is mounted upon a portable cart as indicated at 70, which cart is supported by suitable supporting wheels 71 so that it may be easily transported from one place to another. The operating lever 40a of the modified form of the gun instead of extending forwardly' between the barrels of the guns extends rearwardly thereof and supported by a suitable standard 72, carried by the truck structure. In the modified form, the gun structure is adapted to be moved or pushed in front of the operator, and he can by downward pressure upon the outer end 73 of the operating lever 48 operate the gun structure in the same manner in which the preferred form is operated, so as to discharge the cartridges.

A suitable rod 100 is provided for forcing the empty shells out of the magazine. This rod is preferably carried by a part of the gun structure, when not in use, as indicated in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings the advantages of construction and the method of operation of the improved gun will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art towhich this invention appertains and, while in the foregoing description, the principle of the operationof this invention has been described together with various features of construction, itis to be understood that certain minor features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts may be altered to suit ractic'al conditions provided such alteratlons are the rod 33 to fire" means operable by comprehended within the scope of what is claimed.

l/Vhat is claimed is:

1. In a device as set forth, the combination, of a gun structure, a tread structure, means operable by the depression of said tread to discharge said gun structure, and lthe depression of said tread to recharge said gun structure.

2. In a device as set forth, a pair of guns, a tread, means operable upon the depression of said tread for simultaneously firing said guns.

3. In a device as set forth, a gun structure including a rotatable magazine, firing means, means for rotating said magazine so as to bring cartridges carried thereby into alinement with the gun barrel and the firing means, a tread member, and means operable by said tread member for operating said firing means and said magazine rotating means.

4. In a device as set forth, a gun structure, including a barrel, a rotatable magazine, a hammer, a pivotally mounted trigger lever, means for operating said trigger lever to operate said hammer and means operated by said trigger lever to rotate said magazine.

5. In a device as set forth, including a rotatable magazine, a hammer, a pivotally mounted trigger lever, means operated by the operation of said trigger lever to operate said hammer, a tread, and means connecting said trigger lever and said tread to operate the trigger lever upon depression of the tread, and means operable by depression of the tread for causing intermittent rotation of said magazine so as to cause cartridges carried thereby to be brought into alinement successively with the barrel of the gun and with said hammer.

6. In a device as set forth, a gun structure, including a .rotatable magazine, a hammer, a pivotally mounted trigger lever, means operated by the operation of said trigger lever to operate said hammer, a tread, and means connecting said trigger lever and said tread to operate the trigger lever upon depression of the tread, and means operable by the return movement of said trigger lever to its normal position for rotating said magazine.

In a device as set forth, the combination, of a pair of gun structures each including a barrel, rotatable magazines, hammer structures for ring cartridges carried by said magazine, means for rotating said magazines for feeding cartridges in alinement with the barrels of the guns, a trigger lever, means operable by said trigger lever foroperating'said hammer, and means operablle by the return movement of said trigger lever to its normal position to rotate said magazines.

8. Ina device as set forth, the combination, of a; pair of gun structures each ini a gun structure,

eluding a barrel, rotatable magazines, hammer structures for discharging cartridges carried by said magazines, means for rotating said magazines for feeding cartridges in 5' alinement With the barrels of the guns, trigger levers, means operable by said trigger lever for operating said hammers, means operable by the return movement of said trigger lever to normal position to rotate 10 saidmagazines, a movable tread member,

In testimony whereof I aiiX my signature 15 in presence of tvvo Witnesses.

SANDY H. LOVE. d

Witnesses L. G. FITZPATRICK,

E. M. HOOKER.

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